Personal

I did some scanning of bills in the AM. I got up at 8AM again. that is killing me. Then I went to the pool with Jayson for the afternoon. We watched Aliens the movie afterward. That is one of my all time favorite movies. So many awesome lines in that movie. Bill Paxton rocked. I was so happy when the DVD version came out with the deleted scenes. Saw it for the first time with my surround sound system. The explosions really do sound better. Not sure if family next door to me liked it though?

I took another 2 Butabitols today. I started feeling shitty by the pool. I feel great now with them in my system!!!

I am also almost out of guest passes for the pool club. Thank goodness I move by 7-31-04. More later, I am off to bed. Maybe I will get a good night sleep tonight???

I am trying, and partially succeeding in not spending allot of money this month. I am moving in July (hopefully) and it costs allot. So I want to save a chunk of cash this month and next. Won’t talk about how much, but it is enough to make me stop and think before I buy anything.

I looked at my credit card balance and almost freaked because it was so high. Then I realized that it was 90% work related stuff. That got me to do an expense report. I hope my fiscal responsibility holds up for 6 or so more weeks. I don’t want to be down in my savings because of a move. Right now I don’t know if I can pull it off. I am keeping my fingers crossed…

I cleaned out some of the crap I have in my closets this weekend. I am planning on my move, so I am getting rid of crap now. I got rid of some books that I didn’t think I would ever read again. I also found some old cassette tapes I had from the 80’s and early 90’s. I tossed them since I had already gotten 95% of the music on the computer as MP3’s.

I have more cleaning to do, but I didn’t feel up to doing it yet. I have a ton of old clothes that probably need to go. Moving gets you to think do you really need stuff?

This blog entry was written while listening to Something About You from the album “America Town” by Five for Fighting

The apartment I am looking to get is still up in the air. Some sort of issue of when I want it vs when they want to rent it. To hedge my bets I am looking again tomorrow with a different broker. My friend Miguel from work’s sister is a broker and will show me places tomorrow. Hopefully I like one of the places, or the other thing comes through.

This whole process sucks. Finding an apartment is not fun. Everyone seems sleazy even if they seem friendly at first. They seem out to get you when it comes time for money. Things they said at first slowly change, extra things come up. I am not a push over and was like WTF. I am dealing with a broker because I didn’t want to waste my time, and now I find myself wasting tons of it.

I have 3 requirements. Why is it that 75% of the time I am shown an apartment one or two of the requirements are not meet? I don’t have crazy requirements. all of them are checkable before I even see a place, but no I am still screwed into seeing places that don’t meet the requirements I setup. Dam bastards.

Yes I am a bit frustrated. At least I still have over a month before I must find a place.

I wonder why I don’t talk allot about my personal life on this thing. Then I remember. I didn’t mention my girlfriend for a while, but I felt I was omitting large parts of my life so I decided to mention her at least in passing. Now I have to mention other information. I probably don’t but I feel compelled to bring it up now and not discuss it again. We are no longer seeing each other. This was a decision I made, and I don’t regret it. That does not make it that much easier though. I won’t get into any sobby details. Sorry if you thought I would get all emotional!

I do feel like writing more about it, but that is not my style, or I don’t think it is. I do feel like writing so if I end up babbling about other nonsense topics, you know why.

I put a deposit down on an application for an apartment. Everywhere else in the universe but NYC it works differently. Here you apply for an apartment, and then they see who has the best credit, is willing to pay the most, and is also willing to move in the soonest and that person gets the apartment. Not first come first serve. It is crappy, but I need a place, and it is supply and demand.

I filled out all the information they needed. This included a letter from my work, a W2 from last year, a copy of a recent pay stub, a bank statement, 2 references for credit, copy of my drivers license, and who knows what else. I offered to give them DNA for their records also. I was told all that was enough for the application. Now I am being asked to come back in for some other reason. not sure why, but if isn’t a good reason I am going to go ballistic on these people. I am not that desperate yet where I will put up with this shit forever.

Not sure if Jayson is having better luck going straight to the owners of apartments, vs my dealing with a broker.

I saw 3 more apartments today. I liked 2 of them. The only problem is they were both on the high side. Not too high, but if you inch higher in what you are going to pay, the next thing you know you are paying way more than you originally planned on.

Both apartments were nice. One was a big bigger than the other. But the smaller place was in a much better location. I think I am going to put in an application for the smaller place. I liked the location, and the building was nice.

The third place I went, was none of the above. it was not in a nice area, it was not a great building, and it didn’t have a 24 hour doorman like I requested.

The original buildings I wanted to see today had no openings. They filled up between the time I asked to see them, and the time we were going to go to see them. Oh well.

I am going to think over my choices tonight and call the real estate broker tomorrow. Hopefully the place I finally choose is not yet taken. That seems like it may happen. Stuff moves fast in manhattan in the summer.

Today I pretty much returned to normal activities. I still am a bit stuffed up and coughing, but I went to the pool, and hung out with Jay most of the day. I was feeling well enough to goto outback. I also wasn’t afraid to get close to Morgan. Normally I am petrified to go near her when I am not feeling well, so I must be better.

Friday night I stayed in. I was still feeling sick. I took some more Tylenol PM and tried to goto bed early. Work was a normal kind of busy. Nothing out of the ordinary there.

I am scheduled to visit some apartments Monday afternoon. I hope that I find something. Miguel’s sister is a real estate broker also and I will be calling her if I cannot find something by early next week. I am still optimistic.

This blog entry was written while listening to I Alone from the album “Throwing Copper” by Live

Everyone has them. You have a friend and that friend introduces you to his or her friends. You either get along or you don’t. If you do and you hang out thats great, or not. That is how you meet people. Friends of friends are common. Some of my current friends I have were introduced to me by friends I don’t even see anymore. That is just the way it is. Other people you meet that are “friend of a friend” you only see or talk to when the initial friend is around.

That being said, a friend of a friend of mine called me last night. He never calls me. he is in the later group of only seeing him when I am with the mutual friend. I answer the phone and ask whats up. I get along with this guy so I am nice. He is looking for our mutual friend. I immediately am now pissed. You call me looking for someone else because they aren’t calling you back. How rude is that. Of course he does not even see what he did wrong, so I don’t mention it. I just file it away for future reference.

Am I wrong to think that was rude? I don’t speak to this guy very often and then he calls looking for someone else because he cannot get that person on the phone? And he wanted to talk to my other friend about some stupid thing. it wasn’t even an emergency. of course this guy thought it was an emergency, but what I am I to do? I may be over reacting. I am on cold meds this week. That may be it, yeah…